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Blog Post
The US and China: Not Number One
December 21, 2020 | Shining Tan, Scott Kennedy
From Trustee China Hand

It is almost universally believed that the United States and China are locked in a strategic competition of epic proportions. But in many areas of social significance, both the US and China are not number-one. 

Blog Post
The Evolving Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in US Politics
December 21, 2020
From Technology Policy Blog
The rise of AI and machine learning has spurred a reimagination of the role of data analysis, targeted advertising, and voter engagement strategies at large in American political campaigns, but they nonetheless face an uncertain regulatory future.

Blog Post
No One is Immune: The Spread of Q-anon Through Social Media and the Pandemic
December 17, 2020
From Technology Policy Blog
Conspiracy theories are on the rise, with groups like Q-anon taking advantage of pandemic related anxieties to convert unsuspecting social media users.

Report
Managing Climate Change Information in the Next Administration
December 17, 2020 | James Andrew Lewis, Sarah Ladislaw Governments, industry, and civil society require increased access to climate data and analysis to inform critical decisions. This report identifies and recommends federal action in the collection, management, and analysis of climate data to guide the next administration.

Blog Post
Assessing the Impact of U.S.-China Technology Competition and Decoupling: Focusing on 5G
December 16, 2020
From Technology Policy Blog

5G is a crucial battleground for technology decoupling with China. Assessing the impact of recent U.S. actions from a broad perspective shows that the U.S. and allies have to work together to encourage the use of trusted equipment and maintain the capacity to build and...


Commentary
The International Telecommunications Union: The Most Important UN Agency You Have Never Heard Of
December 14, 2020 | Kristen Cordell The International Telecommunications Union preceded the United Nations and today is the multilateral forum where decisions about telecommunications are made. U.S. strategic competitors follow the organization with great interest. The United States should, too.

Report
Global Security Forum 2020: A New Era for U.S. Alliances
December 14, 2020 | Emma Bates, Samuel Brannen The 2020 Global Security Forum Report distills insights for alliance strategy from a bipartisan group of 60 experts who assessed 3 hypothetical future scenarios.

Report
The Hidden Costs of Cybercrime
December 9, 2020 | James Andrew Lewis, Zhanna Malekos Smith , Eugenia Lostri As the global losses from cybercrime approach $1 trillion, this report focuses on those costs that organizations may be less aware of, such as opportunity costs, down time, and damaged staff morale.

Blog Post
China’s COMAC: An Aerospace Minor Leaguer
December 7, 2020 | Scott Kennedy
From Trustee China Hand
Today our program is issuing a video report, China’s Stalled Aircraft Dreams, which documents China’s failed efforts over many decades to develop their own commercial aircraft.

Commentary
Five Cyber Strategies to Forget in 2021
December 3, 2020 | James Andrew Lewis CSIS’s James A. Lewis highlights five terms that form an outmoded construct for strategic analysis of cybersecurity.

Report
Video Conferencing Technology and Risk
December 3, 2020 | James Andrew Lewis The response to Covid-19 created a major new market for video conferencing technologies, but this led to concerns over privacy and cybersecurity. This white paper evaluates the cyber risks of the use of VCTs.

Blog Post
Covid-19 and the Trajectory of US Venture Capital and Technology Innovation
December 3, 2020
From Technology Policy Blog

Adapting to the global economic and workplace realignment triggered by Covid-19, VC investments throughout 2020 have focused on e-commerce, artificial intelligence, education and health tech, cloud migration and blockchain.

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